Astronomers have made great strides in discovering planets outside of our solar system, termed "exoplanets." In fact, over the past 20 years more than 5,000 exoplanets have been detected beyond the eight planets that call ...
Astronomy
Apr 8, 2016
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii have made independent confirmations of an exoplanet orbiting far from its central star. The planet was discovered through a technique called gravitational ...
Astronomy
Jul 30, 2015
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Everyone here is familiar with the practical applications of gravity. If not just from exposure to Loony Tunes, with an abundance of scenes with an anthropomorphized coyote being hurled at the ground from gravitational acceleration, ...
Astronomy
Feb 6, 2015
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A newly discovered planet in a binary star system located 3,000 light-years from Earth is expanding astronomers' notions of where Earth-like—and even potentially habitable—planets can form, and how to find them.
Astronomy
Jul 3, 2014
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A study led by Notre Dame astrophysicist Justin Crepp has for the first time definitively determined how many of the lowest-mass stars in the galaxy host gas giant planets. The researchers' paper, "The Occurrence Rate of ...
Astronomy
Jul 26, 2013
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Our galaxy may be awash in homeless planets, wandering through space instead of orbiting a star.
Astronomy
Feb 23, 2012
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There are more exoplanets further away from their parent stars than originally thought, according to new astrophysics research.
Astronomy
Jan 12, 2012
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An international team has used the technique of gravitational microlensing to measure how common planets are in the Milky Way.
Astronomy
Jan 11, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether it's right under our nose or far away, when we observe an object we see it—provided we have healthy eyes and normal vision or suitable glasses—in focus. For this to work, muscles deform ...
Materials Science
Dec 16, 2011
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Even the most powerful high-tech telescopes are barely able to record remote low-mass and thus faint stars. Together with researchers from Poland and Chile, an astrophysicist from the University of Zurich has now detected ...
Astronomy
Dec 15, 2011
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